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Published 9 Jul 2026, 17:36 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Murray Park Catering Concession

Official notice Competition analysis

Authority: London Borough of Richmond upon Thames (Local council)

ServicesAbove thresholdConcessionSME suitableVCSE suitable
Sectors: Hotel, restaurant and retail trade services (55) Delivery: London (UKI75)
Concession value (operator's revenue)£0operator revenue, not the authority's budget
Tender notice expected 16 Jul 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 1 yrends 31 Aug 2027 · up to 1 Oct 2027 with extensions · starts 1 Sept 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Soft Market Testing Exercise on behalf of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames relating to the potential packaging and tendering of an upcoming contract for a 12-month food and beverage concession contract for Murray Park.

CPV: Catering services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 1 yrSMEVCSE
Contract period: 1 Sept 2026 – 31 Aug 2027 (1 yr) · up to 1 Oct 2027 with extensions
Delivery: LondonEligibility: SME eligibleVCSE eligible
Extensions: Extension options published
55520000 Catering services

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published

How London Borough of Richmond upon Thames buys Catering services (CPV 5552), and who usually turns up

London Borough of Richmond upon Thames’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Catering services (CPV 5552) →

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How the contest usually goes

Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.

Question for the bid
This buyerLondon Borough of Richmond upon Thames · all categories
The marketCatering services (CPV 5552) · Greater London
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
i

How often small and medium firms win.

Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.

The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 12 of 20 known-size awards · market: CPV 5552 · Greater London, n=71
60%24%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?
i

How often local firms win similar work.

Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.

Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in Greater London.

A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 8 of 15 known-location awards · market: CPV 5552 · Greater London, n=107
53%31%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.

How long to a decision?
i

How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.

Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.

Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no decision dates published · market: CPV 5552 · Greater London, n=54
—90 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 90 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.

Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.

Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.

Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: at least 12 of 26 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 5552 · Greater London, n=115
46%16%

Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.

How many bids did past lots attract?

i

How many bids past lots received.

Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.

Past bids do not predict this tender.

Last 36 months.

This buyerToo few to chart: 3 lots with bid counts, 5 needed · all categories
The market101 lots with bid counts · CPV 5552 · Greater London
16% had one bid
Market · select a colour for counts
1 bid16%
Market: 16 of 101 lots with published bid counts.
2–339%
Market: 39 of 101 lots with published bid counts.
4–642%
Market: 42 of 101 lots with published bid counts.
7+4%
Market: 4 of 101 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

i

Where winning prices landed against estimates.

Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.

Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.

Last 36 months.

This buyerToo few to chart: 2 lots with estimate and award, 5 needed · all categories
The market61 lots with estimate and award · CPV 5552 · Greater London
23% below estimate
Market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate23%
Market: 14 of 61 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%30%
Market: 18 of 61 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate48%
Market: 29 of 61 lots with an estimate and award.
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Assess each lot
i

What past awards tell you about each lot.

See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.

No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.

Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list

Lot #1CPV 555212 monthsSME suitableNo real estimate
Expected competition
i

How many bids this lot may attract.

The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.

Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative. The bar shows 101 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet16% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 101 similar lots
1 bid16%
16 of 101 similar past lots received 1 bid (16%).
2–339%
39 of 101 similar past lots received 2–3 (39%).
4–642%
42 of 101 similar past lots received 4–6 (42%).
7+4%
4 of 101 similar past lots received 7+ (4%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 3 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

Where the award price may land.

The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.

No comparable awards for this lot yet.

A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.

—No real estimate
The buyer published £0 as the estimate (a placeholder, not the contract’s value), so there is nothing to forecast against.

Who has supplied this buyer on similar work?
i

Who has done similar work for this buyer.

Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.

A past supplier may not bid again.

No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.

Who could compete for this lot?
i

Who could compete for this lot?

Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.

None is confirmed as a bidder.

Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.

About this data
  • Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
  • Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
  • Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
  • Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Planned procurement
Procurement threshold
Above threshold (FTS publication)
Regulatory regime
Concession
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
9 Jul 2026, 17:36 BST
Last source update
9 Jul 2026, 17:36 BST
Authority reference
3779
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-064925
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Catering services
Delivery area
London (UKI75)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06c801 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

9 Jul 2026 → 1 Sept 2026 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published107 days ago
    9 Jul 2026, 17:36 BST
  2. Tender notice expected100 days ago
    16 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
  3. Market engagement100 days ago
    16 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST

    The aim of this exercise is for the Council to gain a better understanding of how the supply market operates in relation to the provision of a concession at Murray Park and to inform the structure of the ongoing service provision. The exercise will help to inform the scope and processes for securing service delivery in an evolving marketplace.

    The SMTE focuses on the supply market as a whole rather than the merits of individual suppliers and does not commit the Council to any further actions or involvement.

    This is not a call for competition and the Council is not obliged to follow any advice or guidance provided by Suppliers in this process.

    Atamis E-sourcing – all tenders are to be carried out electronically as stipulated by the Procurement Act 2023. The Council uses Atamis as an electronic tendering portal and all interested suppliers are advised to register for an account in order to participate in any upcoming market engagement exercise let by the Council. To register an account on Atamis e-Sourcing, please click on the link:

    lb-wandsworth.my.site.com/ProSpend__eSourcing_… ↗

  4. Contract starts54 days ago
    1 Sept 2026, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    9 Jul 2026, 17:36 BST
    UK2

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Pipeline notice
Awards (0)
No award published
Contracts (0)
No contract published
Bid statistics
No aggregate bid statistics published

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

London Borough of Richmond upon Thames

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PWCN-8355-HHZL 44 York Street, Twickenham, Civic Centre, Richmond, London, TW1 3BZContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure